THE BLUE OF DISTANCE
Video + sound installation 2025 28 minutes
Exhibited at APT Gallery, London November 2025 as part of the group show Translucent Intersections. The Blue of Distance, which, borrowing its title from Rebecca Solnit's ' A Field Guide to Getting Lost', explores travel & flight with regards to what happens in the body and mind throughout that transitory process.
When we think of flying the main connotation that occurs is freedom; we are traversing the sky experiencing an aerial view of land, ocean and clouds in an almost god-like experience and point of view. In reality, we are squeezed into a metal machine, engines whirring, stale air circulating whilst we re-adjust our legs within the miniscule space allocated. At its heart, beyond these physical constraints and very real effects on the body, the work is speaking to an exploration of identity being between two places, shifting and changing in the transitory process of travel and how that can affect relationships and our sense of self. Shot entirely on a mobile phone, the film installation situates the viewer between a silk screen and a 'ghost' projection which travels through the material onto a peach-tinted wall adjacent to the screen.
The audio here was recorded during a short-haul flight using stethoscope microphones to monitor the vibrations of engines echoing through bones and flesh, and sections were recorded underwater using a hydrophone.
With thanks to Manfredi Farinella & Alberto Romano for underwater audio recordings & flight announcements
Installation View APT Gallery London - Photos by Alberto Romano 2025